Cell or mobile phone voice mail or message method of transfer

ABSTRACT

Disclosed herein is a method which allows the cell or mobile phone company or the cell phone user or owner to download voice mail, voice messages, or recorded calls or conversations to the user&#39;s or owner&#39;s personal e-mail or for delivery by a mail means on a hard disk or chip media in a format that can be used to store and play the voice mail or messages from the individual&#39;s computer. The option mode on the cell or mobile phone can be programmed to allow the cell or mobile phone user or owner to download one or more voicemail or message recordings to his or her personal e-mail account. Also, should the number of voice mail or message recordings exceed the number, time, and/or duration storage limit(s) for that particular individual&#39;s cell or mobile phone account, the cell or mobile phone company can initiate and complete the downloading of voice mail or messages. Since the cell or mobile phone voice mail or messages are already stored in a digital means using vocoder technology, the particular stored digital format can be efficiently converted to one of the typical sound generating formats found on PC or MAC computers. Such formats are known as WAV, Windows Media Audio Series, RealAudio, Quicktime6, Wave64, OGG Vorbis, MP3, MIDI, CD Audio, Perfect Clarity Audio, Dialogic VOX ADPCM or AIFF format IBM-PC compatible Personal Computer (PC) and Apple Macintosh computers.

CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This patent application is based upon provisional application No.60/632,020 filed on Dec. 1, 2004 and entitled “Cell or Mobile PhoneVoice Mail or Message Method of Transfer” for which priority is claimed.All of this provisional application is incorporated herein by thisreference.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The field of art to which this invention relates is cell, mobile andportable phones, and computer and internet technology. Morespecifically, the present invention relates to a method for downloadingor transferring recorded and stored voice mail or messages from a cellcompany storage facility to either 1) an individual's e-mail address or2) copied on a hard media for mail delivery in an IBM-PC (PersonalComputer) compatible computer or Apple Macintosh computer audio format.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Cell, mobile and portable phones must communicate with wirelesstransmitting and receiving towers that are installed, operated andmaintained by various cell, mobile and portable phone service orprovider companies. Some of the current and larger service or providercompanies are Sprint Corporation, Verizon Communication Inc., AT&TWireless, T-Mobile and Cingular and will be referred to as cell ormobile phone companies in this application. It also should be noted thatthe Applicant asserts that the terms ‘cell phone’, ‘mobile phone’ and‘portable phone’ are interchangeable through this application. Some ofthe current and larger cell or mobile phone manufacturers ordistributors are Qualcomm, LG Industries, Nokia, Sony, Samsung,Ericsson, Kyocera, and Motorola. The cell or mobile phone has voiceservice software technology which stores unanswered or auto answeringmachine phone recordings in a voice memo or message storage box, folderor computer database. This technology will be referred to herein asvoice mail or message. Furthermore, the some cell or mobile phones allowrecorded conversations which are saved into the voice mail or messagestorage medium.

The cell or mobile phone technology generally allows an individual tosubsequently playback or listen to new and stored voice mail messages orvoice recordings in the voice mail or message storage medium. Therecorded voice mail or message is stored in a password protected mailboxfor the cell or mobile phone owner (user, operator) to subsequentlyaccess. The owner can listen to the voice mail or message using a landhome phone, office phone, cell or mobile phone. The accompanying cellphone audible information generally provides the cell or mobile phoneowner with certain information such as the date and time each voice mailor recorded conversation was stored. This generally occurs just prior toplayback of each voice mail over the cell or mobile phone's speaker.Generally after a voice mail or message has completed playback, theoperator has several options, i.e. option mode. Cell or mobile phonetechnology also commonly allows the operator to interrupt the playbackmode by pressing one or more designated keys on the cell or mobilephone's keyboard in order to immediately enter the option mode.Commonly, the option mode provides the operator the followingchoices; 1) to delete the voice mail or message, 2) to save the voicemail or message, or 3) to forward the voice mail or message to anothercell or mobile phone, by pressing one or more designated keys on thecell or mobile phone's keyboard. Selecting the second option generallysaves the voice mail or message on the cell or mobile company's computerdatabase. The cell or mobile phone technology typically allows theoperator to play the voice mail or message at a subsequent time or dayand select one of the options described in the option mode. After acertain number of voice mail or messages have been saved to the cell ormobile phone's storage box or folder, exceed the number of voice mailsor messages stored or after a certain accumulated total recorded time isreached or exceeded, the cell or mobile phone company may have theoption to delete the oldest voice mail or message, or overwrite theolder messages without the control of the cell or mobile phone operator.Periodically, when the cell or mobile phone operator receives a newvoice mail or message, the cell phone company may require the owner toenter the option mode before allowing the owner to listen to the newvoice mail or message. As the number of voice mails or messages arestored by the operator increases, this practice of periodicallyrequiring the operator select the option mode and review voicemail ormessages becomes a nuisance and increases the cell or mobile phone usagetime, thereby causing the cell or mobile phone owner to increase his/herminutes of time used and potentially causing tie-up of cell phone lines.

Cell or mobile phones are also currently offering owners to record callsor conversations. These recorded calls are processed, stored andaccessed similarly to the voice mail or messages. Consequently, thelimitations and nuisance factors associated with voice mail or messagesare also applicable to recorded calls. The present invention provides amethod to efficiently download or transfer cell or mobile voice mail ormessages or recorded phone calls from the cell or mobile phone company'sstorage medium to the owners electronic mail account (e-mail) or hardmedia. Within this patent application, the term ‘voice mail’ is intendedto include voice mail or messages as well as recorded calls orconversations.

Cell or mobile phone operators generally select the option to savecertain voice mail or messages or to record and save certain phone callsor conversations due to their importance to the operator. For example, amessage from a loved one or a conversation of legal significance may besaved. There are many reasons why an operator may want to save a voicemail or message or recorded call for an extended period. However, theoptions for downloading the stored voice mail or message or recordedphone call is limited to either 1) recording the voice mail, message, orcall from the cell or mobile phone's speaker into a microphone of a tapeor digital recording device, or 2) using a commercially availablesoftware product to transfer the data from the phone to a computer viaan electrical connection. In addition, it is contemplated by theApplicant that the operator may resort to various technologies todownload the voice mail or message from one's phone to a computer viaserial, parallel or universal serial bus (USB) wire connections.Wireless technology such as Bluetooth, WiFi or infrared technology(IRDA) are other methods that may be utilized to transfer the voice mailor message to the operator's computer. Disadvantages common to all ofthese technologies the operator must set up and use auxiliary equipment,the process takes time, and, typically, the operator must be in closeproximity to his or her computer to facilitate the transfer.

There are commercial products which allow communication betweencomputers and cell or mobile phones. Such products are commerciallyknown as DataPilot and Future Dial. Susteen company, located in Irvine,Calif., markets the DataPilot product which provides Phone Book Manager,Dial Up, Ringtone Composer, Image Editor, SMS Manager and Calendarsupport in one software. DataPilot supports the most popular cell phoneson the market which includes more handsets and features for individualcell phone models. DataPilot has Calendar support for cell phones modelsthat have that capability. DataPilot also allows users or owners toimport their Outlook and Palm Pilot data. Future Dial, a company locatedin Sunnyvale, Calif., markets a product termed ‘SnapSync’. FutureDial'sSnapSync™ Software allows users or owners to save phonebook data and MSOutlook™ or Outlook Express™ contact information and to share this dataand information between their PC and mobile phones. These softwareproducts are designed to enable owners to keep their cell or mobilephone's important contact information up-to-date, and securelybacked-up, while they may be at work, at home, or traveling. However,neither Datapilot nor Future Dial allow owners to download voice mail ormessages or recorded calls from their cell or mobile phones to theirpersonal computers because the cell or mobile phone does not store thevoice mail or messages or recorded calls but rather these are stored ina remote location operated by the cell or mobile phone service orcompany.

Other recorders (e.g. Microsoft Recorder) and encoders (e.g. MicrosoftMedia Encoder) are commercially or shareware available for inputtingsound into a sound card of a computer and correspondingly for writingsoftware files. For example, Wav files, can be played by commercially orshareware available audio players (e.g. Microsoft Media Player) or canfurther encode the sound captured written software until othercommercially and shareware available formats, e.g. MP3. These softwaretechniques have the disadvantage that the cell or mobile phone or a landphone that has access to the cell or mobile phone voice mail or messagesystem must have an output means (e.g. output connector) and must bephysically in close proximity to the computer for audio downloading.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Disclosed herein is a method which allows the cell or mobile phonecompany or the cell phone operator to download voice mail, one or morerecorded messages and/or recorded communications, to the registeredphone owner's personal e-mail account in a format utilized to store andplayback the voice mail or messages from the individual's computer asneeded. The option mode on the cell or mobile phone can be programmed toallow the cell or mobile phone owner to download one or more voice mailor messages to his/her personal e-mail account or, alternately, copy ortransfer voice mail or messages to a hard media and specify delivery ofthis data by a know means (e.g. postal service) to their street orpostal address. In addition, should the number of voice mails ormessages meet or exceed the number, time, and/or duration storage limitsof the cell or mobile phone's database for the particular individual'saccount, the mobile phone company can initiate the downloading of voicemail or messages There are commercial products which allow communicationbetween computers and cell or mobile phones. Such products arecommercially known as DataPilot and Future Dial. Susteen company,located in Irvine, Calif., markets the DataPilot product which providesPhone Book Manager, Dial Up, Ringtone Composer, Image Editor, SMSManager and Calendar support in one software. DataPilot supports themost to the phone owner's personal e-mail account or, alternately,provide copies on a hard disk or chip media for mail delivery to thephone owner. Also, if desired, the cell phone company or owner mayspecify an automatic or periodic downloading and delivery of voice mailto a specified e-mail account or mail address. There are severaladvantages to the present invention method. First, the individual hasthe option to download important voice mail or message directly to hise-mail account or deliver voice mail or messages in a hard media formatfor storage on his/her computer. This reduces the nuisance factorsencountered with prior means described above. Second, the mobilecompany's option to download voice mail or messages that meet or exceeda storage limit(s) reduces the need for maintaining large capacitydatabases on large capacity hard disks or other storage medium. Further,should there be a loss, destruction, or in-operation of the hard disk orother storage medium, the individually stored voice mails or messagesmight become permanently lost. This situation could impart some form ofliability to the cell or mobile phone company, depending on thecontractual relationship with the cell or mobile phone owner. Thepresent invention may also be used to backup voice mail, enable a secondsaved source for voice mail, or permanently save important voice mail.

Since cell or mobile phone voice mail or message are already stored in adigital format using vocoder (voice coding) techniques, the means toconvert stored data in a particular stored digital format can beefficiently performed using one of the typical sound generating formatsfound on computers, e.g. IBM-PC compatibles or Apple Macintoshcomputers. Some common known and use formats are WAV, Windows MediaAudio Series, RealAudio, Quicktime6, Wave64, OGG Vorbis, MP3, MIDI, CDAudio, Perfect Clarity Audio and Dialogic VOX ADPCM and AIFF formatfiles. Other audio or movie formats that might be utilized includeWindows Video, Windows Media Movie Series, RealVideo, MPEG 1 and 2 videoand Quicktime Movie. In addition, the personal computer format canconsist of an audio format that can be utilized on a Window operatingsystems, Apple operating systems, Unix or Linux operating systems, palmpilot operating systems and Windows CE operating systems. The Applicantdiscloses that the encoding of vocoder file to a popular audio fileformat can occur on the owner's premises or under the control of thecell or mobile phone service or company. Alternately, the vocoder datafiles can be transferred without any conversion and subsequently besubject to processing by an appropriate encoder program located on thecell or mobile phone owner's computer.

It is a function of the present invention method to facilitate thetransfer and export of voice mail (one or more recorded phone messagesand communications) 1) to a cell or mobile phone owner's e-mail accountin a format which allows the customer to play and listen to voice mailand messages that are stored now on his or her computer, or 2) to hardmedia such as CD or DVD with subsequent delivery to or receipt by theowner.

It is a function of the present invention method to allow a cell ormobile phone user or owner to select a storage option on his or her cellor mobile phone which downloads stored voice mails or messages to theindividual's e-mail account or to a hard medium.

It is also a function of the present invention method to allow a cell ormobile phone company to download voice mails or messages to a customer'sspecified e-mail account or to a hard medium, when the customers storedvoice mails or messages meet or exceed the storage limit(s) defined bythe cell or mobile phone company.

It also a function of the present invention method to decrease thestorage capacity required for storing saved cell or mobile phone voicemail or messages, reduce potential liability for lost voice mails andmessages for the cell or mobile phone company, and eliminate nuisancefactors associated with prior means of transferring cell or mobile voicemail or messages.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The invention can be better understood by reference to the followingdescription, taken in association with the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the cell or mobile phone service orcompany having a vocoder file storage facility, a high capacity storageapparatus, the owner's holding his/her cell or mobile phone, and theowner's computer showing an e-mail browser demonstrating the downloadingof voice mail or messages.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart depicting the typical cell or mobile phone voicemail or messages processing states used in cell phone communications andthe methods of the present method invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Before the present method of transferring cell phone voice mail ormessages is described, it is to be understood that this application usesthe terminology ‘cell or mobile phone company’ as the service providercompany and its associated facilities which install, operate andmaintain cell, mobile, or portable phone towers; operate and maintainMobile Telephone Switching Offices (MTSO); provide wireless cell ormobile phone communication services; and offer customer services andhave facilities which store saved cell or mobile phone voice mail ormessages linked to an owner's cell phone number or account. It alsoshould be understood that cell or mobile phone manufacturers incorporatevarious forms of software technology that are based upon variousoperating systems. The present invention method is not limited to anyparticular cell phone service or provider or to any cell or mobile phonemanufacturer.

It must be noted that, as used in this specification and in the claims,the singular forms “a”, “and” and “the” include the plural referenceunless the contexts clearly dictates otherwise. The publications and websites discussed herein are provided solely for disclosure prior to thefiling date of the present application. Nothing herein is to beconstrued as an admission that the present invention is not entitled toantedate such publication by virtue of prior invention.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the cell or mobile phone company 10,voice mail or message (digital) file large capacity storage facility 12(operated by the company or a contracted party), the owner 20 holdinghis/her cell or mobile phone 30, and the owner's computer 40 showing ane-mail browser 50 demonstrating the downloading of voice mail or messagerecordings 52. Contained within the storage facility 12 are highcapacity storage apparatus 13 represented in FIG. 1 as a large capacitystorage machine having a high speed tape system 15 on the top and hardmedium storage apparatus (e.g. disk or chip) 17 on the bottom. Arecorded and stored voice mail or message 14 is represented as stored onthe high speed tape 15 but also can be stored on the hard medium 17. Therecorded voice mail or message 14 is transferred from the storagefacility 12 to the registered user or owner's computer 40 by utilizinginternet providers or wireless means 22. Alternately, the recorded voicemail or messages can be copied on a hard media and mailed 23 to aregistered address of the cell or mobile phone owner 20.

The communication means 24 and facility 10, 12 depicted on FIG. 1 aremeant to represent the cell or mobile phone company structure asfollows: The cell or mobile phone first communicates with remotelylocated base stations that are operated and maintained by the cell ormobile phone company. Each base station consists of a tower and a smallbuilding or structure that contains radio transmitter and receivingequipment. The base station towers are generally steel pole or latticestructures that typically rise hundreds of feet above the ground and arepositioned at strategic locations within a coverage area. Each cell ormobile phone company runs one or more central offices called the MobileTelephone Switching Office (MTSO) in a region that communicates with thebase stations. The MTSO handles all of the phone connections to thenormal land-based phone system, and control all the base stations in theregion. The MTSO can be associated with a large capacity storagefacility that employs large capacity hard media to record information(e.g. cell or mobile time usage, billing data, stored and recordedmessages) and which may be located in close proximity with the MTSO orremotely located. The large capacity storage facility can be operatedand maintained by the cell or mobile phone company or by a contractedthird party storage provider.

Now referring to FIG. 2, depicted is a block diagram describing thetypical cell or mobile phone voice mail or message processing statesused in cell or mobile phone communications and the methods of thepresent method invention. In the first step 60, a telephone call isinitiated to a cell or mobile phone 30. If the telephone call is notanswered, the caller has the option to record a voice mail or message14. In addition, current cell or mobile phone software technology allowsan user or owner 20 to record a telephone conversation or call. Therecorded call is then saved as a recorded voice mail or message 14.Generally human analog speech is digitally encoded and recorded beforethe storage on hard or soft media is performed. As an example, in IS-95CDMA technology, human speech is digitally encoded 54 using a techniquecalled Code-Excited Linear Prediction (CELP). The recorded digitizedvoice mail or message 14 is generally stored at the cell or mobile phonecompany 10 or at a high capacity storage facility 12, as shown in step62. As an example of the digitized storage format that can beelectronically copy or written to hard or soft media is the vocoderformat (e.g. Qualcomms PureVoice .qcp files). The Applicant recognizesthat other digital storage formats are developed and utilized forencoded voice mail and messages by the various cell or mobile phonecompanies 10 and thus are anticipated by the Applicant. For the purposesof this application, all digitized storage formats will collectively bereferred to as vocoder files or vocoder format. Overall, the presentinvention method allows the cell or mobile phone company 10 or the cellor mobile phone owner 20 to download one or more voice mail or messagerecordings 14 to a the owner's personal e-mail 48, or to transfer orsend a copy of the voice mail or message recordings 14 to a hard disk orchip media 46 in an audio format that can be used to store and play therecorded voice mail or messages 14 on the owner's or other designatedindividual's computer 40.

As shown in step 66, the owner 20 of the cell or mobile phone 30 canaccess 63 and listen to the recorded and stored voice mails or messages14. As disclosed and claimed by the present invention, once the user orowner 20 of the cell or mobile phone 30 accesses the recorded and storedvoice mails or messages 14, the user or owner 20 is provided an optionmode to transfer or download one or more recorded voice mail or messages14 to their registered e-mail account 48 or alternately, have therecorded voice mail or messages 14 transferred to or copied on a hardmedia 46 and sent by a mailing means 23,70 (e.g. U.S. Postal Service,Federal Express, UPS) to the owners 20 registered street or postaladdress. The request to transfer the recorded voice mail or message 14to the owner's registered e-mail account 48 or copied to hard media 46and send by a mailing mean 23,70 will be subsequently processed at thediscretion of the cell or mobile phone company 10. The transfer ordownloading of recorded voice mail or messages 14 to an e-mail account48 can be processed at a higher frequency than copying the recordedvoice mail or message 14 to a hard media 46 and using a mailing means23,70 to deliver the media to the owner 20.

In addition, the downloading of recorded and stored voice mail ormessages 14 can be initiated by the cell or mobile phone company 10without any direct intervention by the cell or mobile phone owner 20. Inthis embodiment, should the number of stored voice mail or messagerecordings 14 meet or exceed the number, time, and/or duration storagelimits designated by the cell or mobile phone company's policy for thatparticular individual's account, the cell or mobile phone company 10 candownload one or more of the saved or stored voice mail or messagerecordings 14 to the cell or mobile phone owner's personal or registeredemail account 48 or, alternately, can provide copies of the saved orstored voice mails recordings 14 on a hard disk or chip media 46 fordelivery to the cell or mobile phone owner. The downloading completed bythe cell or mobile phone company 10 can occur at a specific frequencye.g. hourly, daily, weekly, or can be completed at irregularfrequencies. For example, if the cell or mobile company has a policytime storage limit that downloads all or a portion of the recorded andstored voice mail and messages 14 held in an account for a period oftwenty-one days, or more specifically 504 hours, then, once this timelimit is met, the downloading of the recorded and stored voice mail ormessage 14 can automatically occur whereby the transfer ensues over theinternet or wireless means 22, 68 at the 504 hour interval. Since voicemails and messages have various times and dates when recorded andstored, the transfer or download can generally be irregular in time. Forexample, if on October 1^(st) one voice mail or message was recorded at10:00 a.m., another at 1:32 p.m. and a third at 5:06 p.m., then anautomatic 504 hour download could commence on October 22^(nd) at 10:00a.m., another at 1:32 p.m. and a third at 5:06 p.m., respectively.Alternately, the cell or mobile phone company 10 can batch, for example,a full month (30 days) of recorded and stored voice mail or messages 14and then download all of the voice mail or messages that fall withinthat period of time. The batch method might be favored when recorded andstored voice mail and messages 14 are copies to a hard disk or chipmedia 46 and sent by a mail means 23, 70 to the registered address ofthe owner 20. If the number storage limit is employed by the cell ormobile phone company, once a certain number limit is met or exceeded,for example, 100 recorded and stored individual voice mails or messages14 are stored in the particular owner private mail box, then the company10 can have a policy that automatically transfers or downloads all 100or some portion of the 100, for example 50, by either internet orwireless means 22,68 or mailing means 23,70. If the duration limit isemployed by the cell or mobile phone company 10, once a certain totalaccumulated duration of recorded voice mail or messages is met orexceeded, then the company can automatically transfer or download all orsome portion of the saved recordings. It is also contemplated that thecell or mobile phone company 10 can simultaneously use the number, time,and/or duration storage limits.

There are several advantages to the present invention method. First, theindividual or owner 20 has the option to download important voice mailor messages or phone call recordings that are stored by the cell ormobile phone company 10 directly to his e-mail account 48 or deliveredthese to a hard media 46 format for storage on his or her computer. Thisreduces the nuisance caused by either recording voice mail or messagesfrom the cell or mobile phone's speaker into a microphone of a tape ordigital recording device or by using a commercially available softwareproduct to transfer the data to their computer via an electricalconnection. Second, the cell or mobile company's option to downloadvoice mail or message recordings that meet or exceed a number, time, orduration limit(s) potentially reduces the need for maintaining largedatabases on large capacity hard disks or other storage medium. Further,should there be a loss, destruction, or in-operation of the hard disk orother storage medium, individual stored voice mail or message recordings14 might become permanently lost. This situation might impart some formof liability to the cell or mobile phone company 10, depending on theircontractual relationship with the cell or mobile phone owner 20.

Now referring to path 65 which leads to step 64 one embodiment of thepresent invention is disclosed. Since the recorded and stored cell ormobile phone voice mail recordings 14 are already stored in a digitalformat using, for example vocoder (voice coding) technology, the meansto transfer or download the particular stored digital format can beefficiently converted to one of the typical sound generating formatsfound on computers like IBM-PC compatibles or Apple Macintosh computers,as represented in step 64. Some commonly known and used audio formatsare WAV, Windows Media Audio Series, RealAudio, Quicktime6, Wave64, OGGVorbis, MP3, MIDI, CD Audio, Perfect Clarity Audio and Dialogic VOXADPCM and AIFF format files. Other audio or movie formats that might beutilized include Windows Video, Windows Media Movie Series, RealVideo,MPEG 1 and 2 video and Quicktime Movie. In addition, the personalcomputer format can include an audio format that can be utilized inWindow operating systems, Apple operating systems, Unix or Linuxoperating systems, palm pilot operating systems and/or Windows CEoperating systems. The applicant contends that the audio format can beany format which can be stored in a digital format on a computer systemand played by a computer program that converts the digitized format intoan analog format that can be played over speakers, headphone or othersuch technology. A listing of the potential formats can be found on thewebsite www.sonicspot.com/guide/fileformatlist.html and is incorporatedin this application by reference. The converting or encoding of vocoderfiles to a popular PC or Macintosh audio file formats can occur on thecell phone company's 10 premises or contracted to a third party underthe control of the cell or mobile phone company 10 and sent to the cellor mobile phone owner's specified e-mail account. The recorded voicemail or message 14 that has been converted to one of the popular audioformats can now be transferred by internet or wireless means 22 directlyto the owner's registered e-mail account 48 or delivered on a hard media46 by a mailing means 23.

Alternately, the vocoder files can be transferred to the owner's e-mailaccount 48 by internet or wireless means along path 68 without anyconversion which is subsequently processed by an appropriate conversionprogram located on the cell or mobile phone owner's computer. Theconversion programs can be sold, leased, or otherwise provided by themobile or cell phone service/provider or another third party to the cellor mobile phone owner 20 to install on his or her personal computersystem 40. Then raw, vodocer files that have been sent or transferredfrom the cell or mobile phone company to the cell or mobile phoneowner's e-mail account via internet or wireless means 68 and cansubsequently utilize (along path 77) a software program located on theowner's computer 40 to convert the vocoder file to one of the popularaudio formats as desired by the owner 20.

Additionally, the transfer or download of one or more voice mailrecordings 14 can be sent to the cell or mobile phone owner 20 on a hardmedia 46 such as a CD (compact disk) or DVD and delivered using a mailsystem 70 such as the U.S. Postal Service, Federal Express, UPS or othermail or delivery provider. The conversion programs can be sold, leased,or otherwise provided by the mobile or cell phone service/provider oranother third party to the cell or mobile phone owner 20 to install onhis or her personal computer system 40. Then raw, vocoder files copieson a hard disk or chip media 46 can utilize a mailing means 70 to sendfiles to the cell or mobile phone owner 20 for transferring to thecomputers hard disk. Then subsequently the raw vocoder files (along path79) can utilize a software program located on the owner's computer 40 toconvert the raw vocoder files to one of the popular audio formats asdesired by the owner 20.

1. A method for transferring and downloading one or more voice mail ormessages to a mobile phone owner, comprising the steps: Accessing thevoice mail or message system on a mobile phone; Selecting an option tosend the voice mail or message to the mobile phones owner's specifiedaccount; and Transferring said voice mail or message in a digital formatto said mobile phone owner.
 2. The method as recited in claim 1, furthercomprising the step of converting a digital copy of said voice mail ormessage from a cell or mobile phone companies' format into a personalcomputer audio format.
 3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein saidtransferring of the voice mail or message is transferred to said mobilephone owner's e-mail account.
 4. The method as recited in claim 1,wherein said method of transferring is by an internet means.
 5. Themethod as recited in claim 1, wherein said method of transferring is byan wireless means.
 6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein saidmethod of transferring is accomplished by utilizing a mailing means todeliver a hard disk or chip media having one or more voice mail ormessages copied to said hard disk or chip media to the mobile phoneowner.
 7. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein said cell or mobilecompanies' format comprises a vocoder format.
 8. The method as recitedin claim 2, wherein said converting of a digital copy of said voice mailor message is conducted by a cell, mobile or portable phone company. 9.The method as recited in claim 2, wherein said converting of a digitalcopy of said voice mail or message is conducted by a third party. 10.The method as recited in claim 2, wherein said converting of a digitalcopy of said voice mail or message is conducted on a computer systemoperated by the cell or mobile phone owner.
 11. The method as recited inclaim 2, wherein said personal computer format is an audio formatselected from the group consisting of WAV, Windows Media Audio Series,RealAudio, Quicktime6, Wave64, OGG Vorbis, MP3, MIDI, CD Audio, PerfectClarity Audio, Dialogic VOX ADPCM and AIFF for the computers like theIBM-PC compatible and the Apple Macintosh.
 12. The method as recited inclaim 2, wherein said personal computer format is an audio format thatcan be utilized on a Window operating systems, Apple operating systems,Unix or Linux operating systems, palm pilot operating systems andWindows CE operating systems.
 13. The method as recited in claim 1,wherein said transferring and downloading one or more voice mail ormessages from a mobile phone owner's account to the mobile phone owner'se-mail account is repeated a plurality of times.
 14. A method fortransferring and downloading one or more voice mail or messages from amobile phone owner's account to the mobile phone owner's e-mail account,comprising the steps: One or more voice mails or messages stored on acell, mobile or portable service or company' computer that exceedingsaid company's a number limit for a specified owner's personal account;Said cell, mobile, or portable service company electing to send one ormore of the exceeding number of voice mails, and Transferring one ormore voice mails or messages in a digital format to said mobile phoneowner.
 15. The method as recited in claim 14, further comprising thestep of converting a digital copy of said voice mail or message from thecell, mobile, or portable service or companies' format into a personalcomputer audio format.
 16. The method as recited in claim 14, whereinsaid transferring of the voice mail or message is transferred to saidmobile phone owner's e-mail account.
 17. The method as recited in claim14, wherein said method or transferring is by an internet means.
 18. Themethod as recited in claim 14, wherein said method or transferring is byan wireless means.
 19. The method as recited in claim 14, wherein saidmethod of transferring is accomplished by utilizing a mailing means todeliver a hard disk or chip media having one or more voice mail ormessages copied to said hard disk or chip media to the mobile phoneowner.
 20. The method as recited in claim 15, wherein said cell, mobileor portable service or companies' format comprises a vocoder format. 21.The method as recited in claim 15, wherein said converting of a digitalcopy of said voice mail or message is conducted on by a cell, mobile orportable phone company.
 22. The method as recited in claim 15, whereinsaid converting of a digital copy of said voice mail or message isconducted on a computer system operated by the cell or mobile phoneowner.
 23. The method as recited in claim 15, wherein said converting ofa digital copy of said voice mail or message is conducted by a thirdparty.
 24. The method as recited in claim 15, wherein said personalcomputer format is an audio format selected from the group consisting ofWAV, Windows Media Audio Series, RealAudio, Quicktime6, Wave64, OGGVorbis, MP3, MIDI, CD Audio, Perfect Clarity Audio, Dialogic VOX ADPCMand AIFF for the computers like the IBM-PC compatible and the AppleMacintosh.
 25. The method as recited in claim 15, wherein said personalcomputer format is an audio format that can be utilized on a Windowoperating systems, Apple operating systems, Unix or Linux operatingsystems, palm pilot operating systems and Windows CE operating systems.26. The method as recited in claim 14, wherein said transferring anddownloading one or more voice mail or messages from a mobile phoneowner's account to the mobile phone owner's e-mail account is repeated aplurality of times.
 27. A method for transferring and downloading one ormore voice mail or messages from a mobile phone owner's account to themobile phone owner's e-mail account, comprising the steps: One or morevoice mails or messages stored on a cell, mobile or portable service orcompany' computer that exceeding said company's a time limit; Said cell,mobile, or portable service company electing to send one or more of theexceeding number of voice mails, and Transferring one or more voicemails or messages in a digital format to said mobile phone owner. 28.The method as recited in claim 27, further comprising the step ofconverting a digital copy of said voice mail or message from the cell,mobile, or portable service or companies' format into a personalcomputer audio format.
 29. The method as recited in claim 27, whereinsaid transferring of the voice mail or message is transferred to saidmobile phone owner's e-mail account.
 30. The method as recited in claim27, wherein said method or transferring is by an internet means.
 31. Themethod as recited in claim 27, wherein said method or transferring is byan wireless means.
 32. The method as recited in claim 27, wherein saidmethod of transferring is accomplished by utilizing a mailing means todeliver a hard disk or chip media having one or more voice mail ormessages copied to said hard disk or chip media to the mobile phoneowner.
 33. The method as recited in claim 28, wherein said cell, mobileor portable service or companies' format comprises a vocoder format. 34.The method as recited in claim 28, wherein said converting of a digitalcopy of said voice mail or message is conducted on by a cell, mobile orportable phone company.
 35. The method as recited in claim 28, whereinsaid converting of a digital copy of said voice mail or message isconducted on a computer system operated by the cell or mobile phoneowner.
 36. The method as recited in claim 28, wherein said converting ofa digital copy of said voice mail or message is conducted by a thirdparty.
 37. The method as recited in claim 28, wherein said personalcomputer format is an audio format selected from the group consisting ofWAV, Windows Media Audio Series, RealAudio, Quicktime6, Wave64, OGGVorbis, MP3, MIDI, CD Audio, Perfect Clarity Audio, Dialogic VOX ADPCMand AIFF for the computers like the IBM-PC compatible and the AppleMacintosh.
 38. The method as recited in claim 28, wherein said personalcomputer format is an audio format that can be utilized on a Windowoperating systems, Apple operating systems, Unix or Linux operatingsystems, palm pilot operating systems and Windows CE operating systems.39. The method as recited in claim 27, wherein said transferring anddownloading one or more voice mail or messages from a mobile phoneowner's account to the mobile phone owner's e-mail account is repeated aplurality of times.
 40. A method for transferring and downloading one ormore telephone conversations recorded into a voice mail or messages to amobile phone owner, comprising the steps: Selecting a conversationrecording option on a cell or mobile phone; Saving the recordedconversation into a voice mail or message system; Selecting an option tosend the voice mail or message to the cell or mobile phones owner'sspecified account; and Transferring said voice mail or message in adigital format to said cell or mobile phone owner.
 41. The method asrecited in claim 40, further comprising the step of converting a digitalcopy of said voice mail or message from the cell, mobile, or portableservice or companies' format into a personal computer audio format. 42.The method as recited in claim 40, wherein said transferring of thevoice mail or message is transferred to said mobile phone owner's e-mailaccount.
 43. The method as recited in claim 40, wherein said method ortransferring is by an internet means.
 44. The method as recited in claim40, wherein said method or transferring is by an wireless means.
 45. Themethod as recited in claim 40, wherein said method of transferring isaccomplished by utilizing a mailing means to deliver a hard disk or chipmedia having one or more voice mail or messages copied to said hard diskor chip media to the mobile phone owner.
 46. The method as recited inclaim 41, wherein said cell, mobile or portable service or companies'format comprises a vocoder format.
 47. The method as recited in claim41, wherein said converting of a digital copy of said voice mail ormessage is conducted on by a cell, mobile or portable phone company. 48.The method as recited in claim 41, wherein said converting of a digitalcopy of said voice mail or message is conducted on a computer systemoperated by the cell or mobile phone owner.
 49. The method as recited inclaim 41, wherein said converting of a digital copy of said voice mailor message is conducted by a third party.
 50. The method as recited inclaim 41, wherein said personal computer format is an audio formatselected from the group consisting of WAV, Windows Media Audio Series,RealAudio, Quicktime6, Wave64, OGG Vorbis, MP3, MIDI, CD Audio, PerfectClarity Audio, Dialogic VOX ADPCM and AIFF for the computers like theIBM-PC compatible and the Apple Macintosh.
 51. The method as recited inclaim 41, wherein said personal computer format is an audio format thatcan be utilized on a Window operating systems, Apple operating systems,Unix or Linux operating systems, palm pilot operating systems andWindows CE operating systems.
 52. The method as recited in claim 40,wherein said transferring and downloading one or more voice mail ormessages from a mobile phone owner's account to the mobile phone owner'se-mail account is repeated a plurality of times.
 53. A method fortransferring and downloading one or more voice mail or messages from amobile phone owner's account to the mobile phone owner's e-mail account,comprising the steps: One or more voice mails or messages stored on acell, mobile or portable service or company' computer that exceedingsaid company's a duration limit for a specified owner's personalaccount; Said cell, mobile, or portable service company electing to sendone or more of the exceeding number of voice mails, and Transferring oneor more voice mails or messages in a digital format to said mobile phoneowner.
 54. The method as recited in claim 53, further comprising thestep of converting a digital copy of said voice mail or message from thecell, mobile, or portable service or companies' format into a personalcomputer audio format.
 55. The method as recited in claim 53, whereinsaid transferring of the voice mail or message is transferred to saidmobile phone owner's e-mail account.
 56. The method as recited in claim53, wherein said method or transferring is by an internet means.
 57. Themethod as recited in claim 53, wherein said method or transferring is byan wireless means.
 58. The method as recited in claim 53, wherein saidmethod of transferring is accomplished by utilizing a mailing means todeliver a hard disk or chip media having one or more voice mail ormessages copied to said hard disk or chip media to the mobile phoneowner.
 59. The method as recited in claim 54, wherein said cell, mobileor portable service or companies' format comprises a vocoder format. 60.The method as recited in claim 54, wherein said converting of a digitalcopy of said voice mail or message is conducted on by a cell, mobile orportable phone company.
 61. The method as recited in claim 54, whereinsaid converting of a digital copy of said voice mail or message isconducted on a computer system operated by the cell or mobile phoneowner.
 62. The method as recited in claim 54, wherein said converting ofa digital copy of said voice mail or message is conducted by a thirdparty.
 63. The method as recited in claim 54, wherein said personalcomputer format is an audio format selected from the group consisting ofWAV, Windows Media Audio Series, RealAudio, Quicktime6, Wave64, OGGVorbis, MP3, MIDI, CD Audio, Perfect Clarity Audio, Dialogic VOX ADPCMand AIFF for the computers like the IBM-PC compatible and the AppleMacintosh.
 64. The method as recited in claim 54, wherein said personalcomputer format is an audio format that can be utilized on a Windowoperating systems, Apple operating systems, Unix or Linux operatingsystems, palm pilot operating systems and Windows CE operating systems.65. The method as recited in claim 53, wherein said transferring anddownloading one or more voice mail or messages from a mobile phoneowner's account to the mobile phone owner's e-mail account is repeated aplurality of times.